Account Director
Location: NZ, N, Auckland
Department: Client Service
Salary range: 80000-120000
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Advertising

Company profile:
Young &amp; Shand is a full service digital agency that loves a challenge.We’ve made a name for ourselves by creating engaging digital content and leveraging new marketing technology to help NZ businesses grow. We consistently get results with a performance based approach and by ensuring the content we create gets people talking. This has helped us become the country’s fastest growing independent digital agency.How we workOur Auckland office has a full production team, Creative Director, three creative teams, six digital designers and a full development team. As a client, you’ll also have a senior Account Director and an experienced Account Manager working with you day to day and at a strategic level. To ensure everything gets done, we also have our own dedicated team offshore that allows us to work 24 hours a day.Perhaps more important than our production capability is our strategic and creative thinking. Without great thinking you’re only going to get average results. And average is not good enough - we’re only interested in doing world class work that drives results for our clients. That’s why we’ve invested in Ben becoming a New Yorker for 12 months. He’s there to understand what’s happening at the cutting edge of marketing technology so we’re up there with the best.Our environmentLast but not least, we’re a young ambitious company that’s not afraid of hard work. We have a young team that's smart and eager to learn and test the limits of what's possible. We have a real collaborative approach and work together to achieve great results. 

Job description:
We are looking for a new Account Director as a result of recent client wins. The successful candidate will have experience either in a traditional agency, digital agency, media or web development environment. You will need to be comfortable managing and growing their own client accounts across a number of industry sectors in a sole charge environment. This role will manage a group of client accounts with the support of our Group Account Director and a team of two Account Managers and an Account Exec. You'll need to be proactive, strategic and able to add value to our clients. The right person will be a self starter, hungry for bigger things, keen to learn, confident and prepared to work hard to get ahead. You'll be keen to grow a bigger team and do exciting projects with your clients. Basically we want a smart, good sort who will drive exciting campaigns for our clients and help us grow the business.A passion for digital would be expected. The right person will have managed a small team and will be able to demonstrate how they have delivered results for their clients. You will have probably graduated with a marketing or communications degree.

Requirements:
5 to 10 years experience working in an agency environment.Have a passion for digital marketing and deep understanding of marketing/communicationsHave managed a teamDemonstrate an ability to grow businessComfortable developing strategy 

Benefits:
Growing agency - you'll be working on big projectsGreat team culture - we like to have funLearning enviroment - good development programmeFree Pizza on Fridays